At what point the Shrieker Nests and Stalkers Lairs became such phony cardboard cutouts? Are their spawn rates bugged right now, or did AH seriously nerfed them to be nothing but yet another Broadcast Tower like prop to blow up in less than 3 secs and move on?
I lowkey miss the days where these two brought an actual extra threat modifier to each mission, they genuinely always seem to spawn at best a meager handful of units now and literally only when you are already on top of them calling a strategem, what happened to suddenly stepping into a sector of the map already chokefull of hissing invisible predators, actually needing sentry/squad covering fire to clear the skies of swarms of shriekers before approaching the nests, or suddenly getting hit by waves of stalker squads while doing the main mission? I really miss the thrill. uptime action, and fun these two spawners used to bring.
EDIT: People have informed me AH did change the spawn rate and behavior of both lairs and nests back then when they made stealth tweaks for the commando bot missions and stealth warbond, so now my question is, are we genuinely fine with that? Surely everyone must have noticed how nothingburger these objs are atm, they are hardly a presence at all even in 8-10 diffs, and probably only work as intended in ultra small maps.
EDIT 2: A bunch of so called "Bug stealth divers" (lmao) are completely missing the point here, right now lairs and nests don't reward stealth or punish "loud" playstyles at all, right now they only work in a very specific situation most people playing normally can avoid 90% of the time without knowing, you can literally fire your machinegun right at a shrieker nest, dump hundreds of bullets and pop them one by one and they won't react with spawns at all, you can drive up to a stalker lair,being as shamelessly loud as you can and they won't do crap, stalkers don't stalk anymore, they are bug NEETs holed in their nests drawing SEAF-chan fanart or something.